<![CDATA[INLANDER - The pacific northwest - Nightlife]]> http://www.inlander.com/spokane/articles.sec-110-1-nightlife.html <![CDATA[North Division Street]]> Division Street is like Spokane’s zipper, threading up the center of the city and holding the two sides together. But while many may see it as merely a route to somewhere else, when that zipper ]]> <![CDATA[The Garland District]]> The soul of Garland is broken, cracked in two. On one end of this brightly-lit strip of Spokana, a pub serves wet pints sloshing with cheap, domestic beer. A block away, hip young ones gingerly sip ar]]> <![CDATA[Downtown Spokane (West)]]> If Spokane is a dirty martini, the portion of downtown to the west of Monroe Street has all the right ingredients. The area boasts art deco theaters, museums, 19th-century hotels, and fine dining. Wal]]> <![CDATA[Hillyard]]> The eastern flank of Spokane is going through a rebirth, and Hillyard is at its forefront. And though it battles a reputation of poverty and crime, the bars that make up Market Street’s entertai]]> <![CDATA[Spokane Valley]]> They say that long before it was called Spokane Valley, the Salish called it “Sn-tutuul-i.” They also say that no one knows what exactly what that word means. And today, nine years after t]]> <![CDATA[East Central]]> Some people would say it’s lonely here at night, but they’d be mistaken.The roads of East Central snake through a ruddy quilt of factories, auto-repair shops, freeway underpasses, rail lin]]> <![CDATA[Downtown Spokane (East)]]> Downtown Spokane has many faces. Venture into the core and experience a picturesque cosmopolitan shopping Mecca. Turn another corner and hunt down the galleries and wineries hidden in an ill-lit, laby]]> <![CDATA[Cheney]]> Despite Cheney’s underwhelming size, it does have a few perks when it comes to nightlife. For one, you can walk anywhere in town in a matter of minutes, including Cheney’s four bars, all o]]> <![CDATA[Coeur d’Alene]]> “You didn’t think we’d be back, did you?” we ask, returning to the Powder River Saloon from a cash run down to Piggie’s Texaco.The room seems to nod in unison. “It ]]> <![CDATA[Moscow/Pullman]]> College towns can be awesome, what with all the intellectuals and burgeoning talent crammed into such a small area. But these are also the sorts of towns that feature a sizable population of individua]]> <![CDATA[The Perry District]]> It’s an old cliché to say “things move slower here,” but in Perry it’s literal. Specifically, it’s literal for the cars, briefly interrupted in their blitz from th]]> <![CDATA[Wallace]]> Ask a local what people do in Wallace at night and you’ll likely get a laugh, a smile, or some variant of what is apparently a standard answer. “Drink,” says 16-year-old Randy]]>